The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Helicopter damselflies specialize in preying on web-building spiders, like the little orb weavers. This predatory flyer is ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

For a gearhead, there are few places in golf more sacred than TaylorMade's "The Kingdom" in Carlsbad. If you're any type of equipment junkie, it's golf's version of a candy store; except everything is ...

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

This Halloween, learn how arachnologist Hannah Wood uses the fossil record to track the evolution of these misunderstood critters Ellyn Lapointe Smithsonian scientist Hannah Wood rifles through leaf ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern spiders. Using detailed fossil brain analysis, researchers uncovered neural ...

Marvel Movies Spider-Man: Brand New Day behind the scenes look may have spoiled the comic covers its director wants to recreate – which might be why it was swiftly deleted Marvel Comics 70 years after ...

The unusual DNA of a particular type of spider is fascinating scientists, as they think it may hold the key to diverse evolution across the world we live in. Australia’s peacock spider, known for its ...

Is this… Spider-clops? Whoever he is, he's designated Weapon VIII in one of the alternate universes that will be visited in a new volume of Edge of Spider-Verse ...